Machine for making fences



(No Model.)

G. H. SHELLABERGER.

MACHINE FOR MAKING FENOES. No. 300,517. Patented June 17, 1884.

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GEORGE H. SHELLABERGER, OF MOUNT VERNON, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR MAKING FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,517, dated June 17, 1884.

Application filed April 2, 1884. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Gnonen H. Sl-IELLA- BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Knox and 5 State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Manufacturing Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a machine for manufacturing picket fencing by interweaving palings into strands of wire, and a device connected therewith to guide a longitudinal wire while the same is being interlaced with the palings and attached to the upper and lower strands to stiffen the panels.

The mechanism is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 11 is a side eleva- 5 tion of the same.

the depressing-board.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through out the several views.

A is the frame, which consists of side rails, cross-pieces, and legs to hold the operating mechanism at a suitable altitude. On the cross-bar It, near the rear end of the frame, is supported the spool J, on which is wound a single wire, 71 The rods in are supported on 5 posts V and \V of the frame, and these rods give support to the guide a. This guide has a hole in one end for the wire to pass through, and the other end has a slot to embrace the rod, on which it is secured by a pin or bolt.

I is a roller having bearings in posts of the frame near the front end of thesame. The wire to be interlaced diagonally with the slats is carried from the spool J, passed through the guide, thence over the roller I, thence to the outer strand of the palings, where it is twisted onto the same. For the purpose of interlacing said wire a depressing device is used, which consists of a notchedboard, (see Fig. 3,) which is attached to arms and pivoted to posts The notches are spaces for the Fig. III is a front View of strands, so that the lower face of the board may pass beneath the strands, and thereby carry the wire alternately beneath the slats; and thus the wire, which is held in diagonal position, is interlaced with the palings. In the process, when the outer strand is reached, the wire is twisted about the said strand, and the guide a is shifted to the opposite rod. The guide, when placed, is held fixedly to the wire, which traverses the rod as the wire enters into the structure.

The machine, as illustrated in plan, is for the construction of a paling with five strands of wire, the outsides of which are alone exhibited.

B are a series of shafts supported in bearings on cross-pieces of the frame. To the front end of said shafts are attached cranks 0, and the cranks are connected by their pins to the bar D, the central pin being elongated to be grasped by thehand in turning the machine. To the rear end of the shafts are attached spool-frames, the use of which being to hold the spools as, on which are wound, side by side, two wires, and to direct the wires in close proximity to the slats as they are being interwoven into, the panels, said wires passing through orifices in the rear of their frames.

The operation is thus: The spool-frame being in vertical position, the slat is thrust between the wires, the shafts are given one or two turns, and another slat is placed in position,

and the process continued. At the entrance of every second slat the depressing device is lowered, thus carrying the diagonal wire beneath, thereby interlacing the slats by placing the wire alternately above and below them.

At the rear end of the frame is a well-known device for the purpose of winding up the structure as the manufacturing progresses.

K is the shaft on which the structure is wound. The wires constituting the strands are attached to said shaft in any convenient manner.

L is a ratchet-wheel attached to the spindle of the shaft, and s is a pawl pivoted to the frame. The arm 25 carries a pawl, s, which is backed by a fiat spring, and this arm is jointed to the foot-lever 'v by the connection a. By pressing down upon this lever the shaft is caused to partially rotate, and the fixed pawl guide a, and bar R, carrying a spool to give prevents any return movement. position to a diagonal Wire, substantially as Having fully described my invention, What I described. desire to secure by Letters Patent is- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 15 .5 1. Inamachine for manufacturing fence, the my own I affiX my signature in presence of depressing device to carry down the diagonal two'witnesses.

wire to interlace the same into the panel, consisting of a notched board suspended by piv- GEORGE SHELLLSBDRGER' otal arms from the frame, substantially as set Witnesses: V 10 forth. M. M. SHELLABERGER,

. 2. The combination of the roller I, rods m, E. H. NEAL. 

